> I'm now thinking of a workaround: bundling a small library which > uses gnulib/automake inside groff's source tree, as the way > libtoolized programs bundle libltdl. > > The attached patch is proof-of-concept. [...]
This is *very* nice! I haven't thought of that. There are some functions within groff which also benefit from that (like mkstemp or snprintf, for example), and which could be replaced with gnulib stuff. Werner